Zorkmade’s first approach to Urban Art took place during high school, in the middle 90′s, when he was charmed by tags and trow-ups found in his hometown.Influenced by many Italian writers, he started experimenting new letterings, designs, geometrical forms but also realistic characters and cartoons.After that, stylistically influenced by German and Swiss schools and above all by artists such as Daim, Seak,Toast and Sweet, he decided to work on 3D lettering based on design techniques.

After his first steps in the art of writing, Zorkmade went to Rome to study illustration and comics at the ‘Roman School of Comics’, where he also worked as a colourist for several illustrators.

During the following years he worked for IED (‘European Institute of Design’) and realized set designings for short films and for an Italian tv series, together with Tosh (writer, compositor, 3D developer) and Ethnik (well-known writer all over Europe, set designer and sculptor). Thanks to these collaborations Zorkmade found new interest in design and in manufacturing forms and objects, architecturally conceived: he began to build, not just draw, his letters using wood, mdf and plexiglass.He also made experience as a graphic designer and compositing artist.Back to Turin in 2006, Zorkmade developed a more personal creativity and started to apply his lettering study on a new support, canvas. Taking inspiration from Action painting techniques he turns his definite, clear signs into raw gestures, characterized by drippings and spots. To give his works a more “street-like” identity Zorkmade keeps sprays as basic elements and approaches new techniques after Burri and Rauschenberg, using old jute sacks to obtain dirty and raw surfaces, characterized by strong thickness and paint smell.

He took part in different events and live performances, such as “Meeting of Style” in Padua and “Street Attitudes” and “Picturin” in Turin.

A selection of his works was published on Italian and international magazines and websites. Read Less